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Distinguished Professor
Kerrie Mengersen
Faculty of Science,
School of Mathematical Sciences
Biography
Background Kerrie Mengersen holds a BA (Hons) in Mathematical Statistics and Computing and a PhD in Mathematical Statistics, both from the University of New England, NSW Australia. She has held positions as a commercial statistical consultant and an academic staff member at four Australian Universities. She is currently a Distinguished Research Professor in Statistical Science and the Director of the QUT Centre for Data Science at QUT, and holds a concurrent role as Associate Member in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford, UK. She was a Deputy Director in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (2015-2021) and an ARC Laureate Fellow (2015-2021). In 2018 she was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (AAS), the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) and the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences (QAAS). She is an active member of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, International Biometrics Society, International Statistical Institute and the Statistical Society of Australia.Research Distinguished Professor Mengersen focuses on using and developing new statistical and computational methods that can help to solve complex problems in the real world. These problems are in the fields of environment, genetics, health and medicine, and industry. She enjoys working with a diverse range of people doing outstanding things in many different areas, and contributing expertise in an important component of their work. Her research interests include:
- complex systems modelling
- Bayesian statistical modelling, computational methods and applications
- Bayesian networks
- applied statistics.
- ARC Laureate Fellow
- Discovery Projects: 6
- ARC Linkage Projects: 19
- ARC Linkage International Projects: 1
- ARC Centre of Excellence: 1
- NHMRC Program Grant: 1
- NHMRC Projects: 3
- CRC substantive projects: 8
- over 350 refereed journal publications
- over 50 invited international conference presentations
- attraction of over 30 large research grants
- the successful supervision of over 30 postgraduate students in the past 5 years.
- Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Award (APSEA) for People & Community: Virtual Reef Diver team
- Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Award (APSEA) for Spatial Enablement: The Australian Cancer Atlas team
- Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards (APSEA) , the JK Barrie Award for Industry Excellence: The Australian Cancer Atlas team
- Eureka Prize finalist: Virtual Reef Diver team
- regional (Queensland) Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Award for Spatial Enablement: The Australian Cancer Atlas team
- Invited Fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences (QAAS)
- Awarded the Lindley prize for best paper at the World Meeting of ISBA, Edinburgh: PhD Student Matthew Sutton, Benoit Liquet, Kerrie Mengersen and Tony Pettitt
- Elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA)
- Elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (AAS)
- 2018-2023 International Guest Chair, Energy Environment Solutions (E2S), University of Pau and the Pays de l’Adour (UPPA)
- International Jean-Morlet Chair, Aux-Marseille, France, taken up in 2018
- Awarded the title of Distinguished Professor by Queensland University of Technology
- Awarded the Pitman Medal, the highest honour to be presented by the Statistical Society of Australia and the first women to receive it
- Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information Research Excellence Award
- Recipient of the JS Hunter Award, awarded in tandem with the annual J Stuart Hunter Lecture at The International Environmetrics Society 2016 meeting.
- Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship
- Biennial Medal by the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand (MSSANZ)
- Fellow of the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand (MSSANZ).
- Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence (team)
- Elected Fellow of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.
Personal details
Positions
- Professor of Statistics
Faculty of Science,
School of Mathematical Sciences
Keywords
Bayesian statistics, computational statistics, environmental, genetic and health statistics, statistical consulting and expert advice
Research field
Statistics
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- PhD (University of New England)
- BA(Hons) (University of New England)
Professional memberships and associations
- 2020 – 2023 Invited Member, National Committee for Mathematical Sciences, Australian Academy of Science (AAS)
- 2020 Invited Chair, Australian Academy of Science (AAS), Moran Medal Honorific Awards Committee
- 2019 – Present Scientific Council Committee, Centre International De Rencontres Mathematiques (CIRM), Marseille, France
- 2019 – Present Visiting Professor and International Guest Chair, Energy Environment Solutions (E2S), University of Pau and the Pays de l’Adour (UPPA), University of Pau, France
- 2019 Member of the International Statistical Institute Pearson Award Committee
- 2018 Appointed member of Executive Committee for the Australian Academy of Science (AAS)
- 2018 -2019 Invited Member of the Expert Working Group for the Learned Academies Special Project (LASP): Big data in Australian research: issues, challenges and opportunities for the Australian Academy of Science (AAS)
- 2018 Appointed member of Executive Committee for the American Statistical Association (ASA)
- 2018 – 2021 Elected Member of Council, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
- 2018 – 2023 Appointed member of Executive Committee for the International Statistical Institute (ISI)
- 2018 Past President, International Society for Bayesian Analysis
- 2018-Present Member of the panel: the Moran and Hannan Medals for the Australian Academy of Science
- 2018-Present Member of the Bayes4Health, UK, Advisory Board
- 2018 Nominations panel for the International Prize in Statistics
- 2018 Member of QUT’s new Learning Potential Fund Speakers Circle
- 2018 Steering Committee, The World of Statistics (https://www.worldofstatistics.org/)
- 2017 President, International Society for Bayesian Analysis 2017
- 2015 - Fellow of the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand (MSSANZ)
- 2015-2020 Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow
- 2015 - Associate Member, University of Oxford
- 2015-2016 Member of the ISBA Fellows Selection Committee
- 2014 - Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics Management Committee
- 2013-2014 Elected Member of the International Advisory Board, International Biometrics Society
- 2011-2012 National President of the Statistical Society of Australia
- 2011 Member of the National Heads of Mathematical Sciences
- 2005 Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences
- 2004 Elected Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
- 2005-2008 Executive Member of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis
- 2004-2006 Inaugural President of the Australasian Chapter of ISBA
- 2004 -Executive Member of the Statistical Society of Australia; Section Coordinator
- Member of the International Biometrics Society (IBS)
- Member of the International Environmetrics Society.
For more information, visit Kerrie Mengersen's website: https://bragqut.wordpress.com/mengersen/
Teaching
Supervisions Distinguished Professor Mengersen has a strong commitment to training the next generation of researchers, with 36 postgraduate researchers in statistics completed under her direct supervision. A further 22 graduate students completed at Australian and international universities (Malaysia, France) under her associated supervision. Currently at QUT, she is Principal Supervisor of 5 PhD and 4 Masters by Research students and Associate Supervisor to 10 HDR students.
Experience
Academic appointments Since completing her PhD in Statistics in 1989, Distinguished Professor Mengersen has been appointed to several esteemed academic positions throughout her career. Her most recent include:
- Distinguished Professor, Queensland University of Technology, 2016-present
- Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, 2015-2020
- Inaugural Director, QUT Centre for Data Science 2019-present
- Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers in Big Data, Big Models and New Insights, 2014-present
- Research Professor in Statistics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, 2004-present.
- Inaugural Director of the Collaborative Centre for Data Analysis, Modelling and Computation, Queensland University of Technology, 2011-2012.
Key professional positions Distinguished Professor Mengersen has actively contributed to professional societies, serving as National President for the Statistical Society of Australia and Managing Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics. She has also taken various executive roles in the International Society for Bayesian Analysis and the International Biometrics Society. A selection of her current and most recent professional positions include:
- Invited Member, National Committee for Mathematical Sciences, Australian Academy of Science (AAS) 2020-2023
- Scientific Council Committee, Centre International De Rencontres Mathematiques (CIRM), Marseille, France 2019 - present
- Visiting Professor and International Guest Chair, Energy Environment Solutions (E2S), University of Pau and the Pays de l’Adour (UPPA), University of Pau, France 2019 - Present
- Appointed member of Executive Committee for the Australian Academy of Science (AAS) 2018
- Invited Member of the Expert Working Group for the Learned Academies Special Project (LASP): Big data in Australian research: issues, challenges and opportunities for the Australian Academy of Science (AAS) 2018-2019
- Appointed member of Executive Committee for the American Statistical Association (ASA) 2018
- Appointed member of Executive Committee for the International Statistical Institute (ISI) 2018-2023
- Steering Committee, The World of Statistics (https://www.worldofstatistics.org/) 2018
- President, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, 2017
- Associate Member, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, 2015
- Member of the Task Team on Satellite Imagery, Remote Sensing and Geo-Spatial Data, under the UN, 2015
- Statistics Division Global Working Group (GWG) on Big Data for Official Statistics, 2015
- Executive member, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, 2015
- Invited member of Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence selection panel, 2014
- Invited Co-Editor of an issue of Statistical Science on ‘Big Bayes Stories’ 2014–present
- Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics Management Committee, 2014.
Publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Kerrie, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Selected research projects
- Title
- Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- SR200100005
- Start year
- 2020
- Keywords
- Title
- Revolutionising Water-Quality Monitoring in the Information Age
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP180101151
- Start year
- 2019
- Keywords
- Title
- Bayesian Learning for Decision Making in the Big Data Era
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- FL150100150
- Start year
- 2015
- Keywords
- Title
- Improving Productivity and Efficiency of Australian Airports - A Real Time Analytics and Statistical Approach
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP140100282
- Start year
- 2015
- Keywords
- Bayesian Networks; Video Analytics; Operations Management
- Title
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers of Big Data, Big Models, New Insights (ACEMS)
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- CE140100049
- Start year
- 2014
- Keywords
- Title
- New Directions in Bayesian Statistics: formulation, computation and application to exemplar challenges
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP140103564
- Start year
- 2014
- Keywords
- Bayesian statistics; latent variable models
- Title
- From Science to Policy: Quantifying and Managing the Risk of Mosquito Borne Disease in the Context of Climate Change
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP110100651
- Start year
- 2011
- Keywords
- Climate Change; Environmental Health; Risk Management; Public Health Policy
- Title
- Bayesian Statistical Models for Understanding Outcomes and Improving Decision-making for Women Screened for Breast Cancer
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP100100570
- Start year
- 2010
- Keywords
- Bayesian modelling; Spatio-temporal modelling; cancer mapping; cancer epidemiology
- Title
- Airports of the Future
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP0990135
- Start year
- 2009
- Keywords
- Complex Systems Engineering; Airport Operations Management; Business Process Modelling; Surveillance and Identity Management; Human Systems Interaction; Risk and Emergency Management
- Title
- International Networks in Applied Bayesian Statistics: Improving Australia's Knowledge Through Intelligent Data Analysis and Modelling
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LX0882876
- Start year
- 2008
- Keywords
- Bayesian Statistics; Environmental Statistics; Healthy Waterways; Bayesian Networks; Environmental Sustainability
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.